- Prison tattoo program scrapped
- Church plants vineyard in cemetery
- Santas face job risks being cheery, survey finds
- 'Polonium Restaurant' sees business improve in poisoning aftermath: report
- U.S. plane forced to land after passenger lights match to hide flatulence
- South Carolina mother has son arrested for playing with Christmas present
- World chess champion loses match 4-2 to Deep Fritz computer
- Harrods gives bad Santa the boot
- No sex please, we're trying to watch the TV
- Stuffed-animal menagerie claws spot in record books
- Painting by 'Rubens student' is by master himself, Swedish experts claim
- Trouser-ripping train seats force New York authorities to rethink
- Taxman gives Danish sperm bank a headache
- Passenger flatulence prompts US jet to make emergency landing
- Santa is naughty, not nice - so Harrods fires him
- Atlantic premiers agree to wear pedometers for 4 months; goal to walk 544 km
- Flatulent passenger grounds flight
- Critics applauded for trashing movie
- Women too busy to shave armpits?
- Having fun is becoming cheaper
- Norway court rules no tax on strip club "artists"
- Santa's evil sidekick? Who knew?
- San Francisco says no to cookie aroma at bus stops
- Indiscreet parrots and vagrant tortoises: animal tales of 2006
- Honesty pays: Utah worker who turned in $10,000 gets to keep the cash
- Coin dropped in Salvation Army collection kettle may be worth $14,000
- Indiana thief fishes for cash in bank night deposit box; reels in 11 bags
- Critics applauded for trashing movie
- Houston suburb opposes plans for mosque; neighbour threatens to hold pig races
- British town lashes out at 'yob' label
- Nintendo warns Wii users not to get too excited
- Malaysian state backs down on 'sexy' outfit ban
- Japan's dieter-in-chief fights the munchies
- Spanish municipality orders White Christmas - by decree
- Robinson's blunder goal improves diplomatic ties
- Cleric's 2nd wife sparks polygamy debate
- "Little Fatty" unlikely Internet hero in China
- You can say that again...and again...and again..
- Town mulls recommending guns for all
- Billionaire Warren Buffett plays poker for charity, goes broke in less an hour
- Attention department store shoppers: 'Its a fire, not a fire sale'
- Pigeons invade landmark military recruiting station in Times Square
- Naughty Christmas "Pornaments" are not nice, say Florida protesters
- Speak up, sir...You need the extra small condoms?
- Space tourism to be fashion's final frontier
- Where the statues are the spitting image...
- Love is blind in pitch black restaurant
- tail robots mix mojitos
- Suitable for hanging: Chicago's gallows sold
- Condoms too big for most Indian men
- Stephen Colbert's 'truthiness' is pronounced the Word of the Year for 2006
- Waitresses dressed as naughty nurses at Ariz., restaurant rile real nurses
- Man's Lost Wedding Ring Found in Hay
- Berlin opera's heads of Mohammed, Jesus go missing
- Ice cowboys fined for lassoing a polar bear
- NJ principal honours deal with pupils who met reading challenge by roofing it
- Montreal owner of rare Velvet Underground record isn't sorry to sell
- Speak up, sir...You need the extra small condoms?
- Mud-splattered and elegant, one of Britain's royals takes out an ad
- Woman listed as world's oldest person dies at 116 in Memphis nursing home
- NY judge finds 1st Amendment protects Atkins diet against lawsuit
- Malaysian man stranded for hours atop billboard
- British vicar bars Father Christmas from carol service
- Gingerbread houses latest victim of global warming
- Diamonds are a hurl's best friend?
- High copper prices: Thieves steal downed power lines in Washington state
- What a job - finding memorabilia for Hard Rock Cafes
- Iran to launch women-only taxi company for Tehran
- Elephants wed at Indian beach resort to amuse tourists
- Christmas trees being returned to U.S. airport after rabbi says he won't sue
- Lawmaker aims to allow the blind to hunt
- Lettuce ladies urge Kazakhs to go vegetarian
- The pastrami and cheesecake diet...
- Shoppers rescue thief from detectives
- Real estate agent gives guns to homebuyers
- On the Net: Conan O'Brien 'Late Night' character becomes an accidental web star
- New Zealand job offer: condom tester
- The butt of jokes, Czech Premier marks 100 day search for government
- City Haul: Boston mayor proposes selling city hall to developers
- RCMP in western Alberta ask for public's help to find missing zebra
- On the Net: Conan O'Brien 'Late Night' character becomes an accidental web star
- Trademark battle: cash and Carey
- Two-timing cops cause admin havoc
- Australian wildlife official finds two-metre snake in toilet bowl
- Police destroy Civil War-era ordnance found on construction site
- Lettuce ladies urge Kazakhs to go vegetarian
- Sweden uses tradition, technology to banish dark
- Airlines workers sacrifice camel at airport
- New York women release anger -- by Jell-O wrestling
- Man in Germany stops Brazil robbery via Internet
- Plot to smuggle drugs in lollipops foiled
- Evel Knievel sues rapper Kanye West over video
- New video game is first to star Rabbi?
- Indiana teen clocked doing almost 230 km/h; was rushing to get home by midnight
- School sued for barring yearbook picture of student with medieval sword
- Quick decision allows Virginia man to save toddler falling from building
- What's your road sign? Leos best drivers, Libras worst, insurance study finds
- Man leaves 442,000 dlrs to Los Angeles, one buck each to siblings
- Bogus Segolene Royal haunts Second Life
- Christmas myrrh causing a stir in London pub
- Hedgehog lovers rush to spike "stew" book
- Hundreds of Mexican clowns join march to honour the Virgin of Guadalupe
- Harper invites media to holiday reception - on a date that doesn't exist
- Russians cornered for 2 days by hungry polar bear
- Belgians fall for media spoof on Flemish independence
- Chinese man blocked from selling World Cup air
- Tiger goes on camera-crushing spree
- India lifeguard candidates flunk swim test
- It's US vs UK in online geography battle
- Press eats words for immigrant murder story
- Firm combines wine bottle with glass
- So, what's your sign? You crash here often?
- Court orders camera ban for peeping Tom
- Security cameras raise rights worry?
- World's tallest man rescues dolphins in China
- Belgians fall for media spoof on Flemish independence
- Long arms of world's tallest man saves dolphins in northeast China
- Belgian TV amazed at public alarm over spoof 'split' of country
- Bearded German MP defends 'get a shave to get a job' jibe
- Belgians fall for media spoof on Flemish independence
- Philippine warning on Christmas "gifts"
- Oh Lordi: Santa rocks EU but reindeer get a roasting
- Belgian viewers fall for TV hoax announcing breakaway state
- Deliver mail like it's 1999
- No surprise - Americans like U.S. Mint more than IRS
- Jay Bakker says one TV show enough for now
- Mice cause mid-air mischief on Saudi plane
- Vienna to get gender-equal traffic and exit signs
- In a driven city, New York taxis to offer TV, tracking and more
- Robber caught in mesh of mistakes
- Traffic ticket helps elderly man find car
- Cologne fills tax gap with levy on prostitutes
- Poor Cleveland! Greeting card company highlights city's poverty status
- Miss USA in danger of losing crown due to behavior
- Worm hits computers via Symantec Corp.'s antivirus program
- E-mail gaffe offers inside look at Liberal lobbying
- Priests to get soccer tournament in Rome to infuse sport into religion
- Charges dropped against 'American Pie' actress of threatening sex abuse of dog
- Unemployed German finds celebrity, job offers after haircut and shave
- Inventor of The Clapper adds remote control
- Italian village basks in winter sunlight thanks to giant mirror
- 2008 to be "tax-free" as French move to pay-as-you-go
- Jakarta hotel puts $110 hamburger on menu
- "Macaca" named most politically incorrect word
- Shanghai goes the extra smile for 2010 World Expo
- Dog weddings called off on grounds of cruelty
- 'Twas the week before Christmas
- Italy issues new code to stop ultra-skinny models
- Peru toasts al Qaeda with bad bubbly
- Diamonds just icing on Japanese cake
- Group says "fake" fur on coat at Macy's is real
- Two men tried to smuggle birds in coat, fanny pack, U.S. border agents say
- Woman apparently angered by Brazilian legislators' pay raise stabs congressman
- 100-year-old Texan who left university in 1929 finally receives degree
- Indian silver medallist in women's race at Asian Games fails gender test
- Scottish soldiers forced to share kilts because deal to buy 1 each not finalized
- So many sprouts, so little time: festive veg bid wilts
- French launch university degree in private eye-ing
- Vatican mulls fielding football team
- Say cheese: Canadians getting teeth whitened for smiles like favourite celebs
- World-famous Hamleys toys sell out after Internet mistake
- Less than half of British children aware Jesus born on Christmas Day: survey
- Japanese woman finds jeans with a bite
- World-famous Hamleys toys sell out after Internet mistake
- Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding: The new Internet addictions
- Swiss zoo swamped with snakes as 40 baby anacondas born
- New Zealand manager jailed for robbing his own bank
- Travelling salesman put 1 million miles on his Saab; gets free replacement car
- Pimp my video: man convicted of procuring helps make educational film
- Thieves toast break-in at Johannesburg police station
- Injured man wins damages for sex overdrive
- Stolen baby Jesus statue returned after 8-month trip chronicled in photo album
- Just kidding about that Vatican pro football team: cardinal
- Marijuana top U.S. cash crop, policy analyst says
- Malaysia cleans up toilets to lure tourists
- Groups offer Web festival sacrifice
- Thieves break into police station
- Vietnamese "brides" parade for lonely Malaysians
- Italy issues new code to stop ultra-skinny models
- Santa Clauses' celebrating draws police to suburban Vancouver mall
- Malaysia launches 'self-cleaning' toilets to woo tourists
- Library takes novel approach to romance
- Santa dons hardhat after mince pie attack
- Sewage divers submerge in murky world
- Movie studio Fox auctions movie star contracts
- Toy shop says "Bah, Humbug!" to Web sale
- Overweight man sues Air France over seat row
- Plaintiff in property rights case sends angry holiday message
- Jewelry store defences fall as thieves kick through wall from shop next door
- Virgin Komodo dragon prepares to give birth during holiday season
- Aboriginal community tries to enlist DiCaprio in fight against diamond mine
- Indian police reluctant to fight the flab
- Christmas parties becoming a legal minefield
- Japanese man in virtual 'hibernation' survives 3 weeks without food or water
- Library takes novel approach to romance
- Santa dons hardhat after mince pie attack
- Sewage divers submerge in murky world
- Movie studio Fox auctions movie star contracts
- Toy shop says "Bah, Humbug!" to Web sale
- Cooks lured to "prep kitchens"
- Woman complains to police about shoddy crack cocaine
- O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, may the courts find a home for thee
- Harper and Dion - a tail of cats and dogs
- Aboriginal community tries to enlist Leo DiCaprio in fight against diamond mine
- Traveling for the holidays? If you're a Russian debtor, pay up first
- Santa smashed in mince pie mayhem
- Italian legislators condemn gay dolls in nativity scene
- Leader won't let wife drive him on motorbike
- Hoax Web site jabs anti-illegal immigrant town
- FBI releases last of secret John Lennon files
- Baby put into X-ray machine at Los Angeles airport
- Popular gadgets may make painful gifts
- Birth as easy as 1-2-3: one woman, two wombs, three babies
- 'Santa Claus' robs Portuguese gas station at gunpoint
- UAE emirate bans pyjamas at work
- Beijing takes aim at food follies ahead of Olympics
- Grinch torches Christmas tree erected on downtown corner of Ontario town
- Latest on YouTube: Men wearing wild disguises get driver's licences
- Mystery artist puts new face on highway safety project; some amused, some not
- Baby put into X-ray machine at Los Angeles airport
- Popular gadgets may make painful gifts
- "Sword throat" -- one of the perils of sword-swallowers
- Edmonton liquor store rakes in Canadian Tire money in exchange for booze
- Santa beards fail fire safety tests in Sweden
- Texas teenager fighting efforts by police to remove bullet from his head
- Women wielding handbags help police catch fleeing suspect in central England
- Supersize price for Indonesia's 110-dollar burger
- Chinese students urge Christmas boycott
- Wine investing: buyers, cellars and liquid assets
- Egypt sniffer dog's costly air movement
- A real Christmas story
- It's Christmas! Have a little more bat meat!
- PhD students say "humbug!" to Christmas
- Oldest hockey stick sells for 1.9 million dollars
- Armed men in Santa suits hold up cellphone store in Liverpool, England
- Escape of wild cat briefly shuts National Zoo in Washington; animal recaptured
- English church uses Beach Boys to liven up Nativity
- Anonymous buyer pays $2.2 million for hockey stick billed as oldest ever
- Woman with 2 wombs gave birth to triplets, says hospital in Bristol, England
- Motorists switch satnav on, brain off
- The Christmas family, from Mary to Carol, has heard all the jokes
- "Sword throat" -- one of the perils of sword-swallowers
- British queen too shy to watch her Christmas speech with royals: report
- Transport chaos grips US -- but Santa's sleigh gets the all clear
- Transport chaos grips US -- but Santa's sleigh gets the all clear
- Need advice on growing cannabis? Greek police can help
- Indiana school told to reinstate students expelled for 'teddy bear attack' film
- Supergran Josie, 59, holds builders hostage for slow work
- This just stinks: New research shows hibernating skunks benefit from snuggling
- A real Christmas story